The King is alive, down with the King!

[Ignoramus]

This is a rough idea that I have recently thought up for a MTWII Hotseat Campaign.

Most hotseats tend to take forever to finish, and usually stall waiting for players to be available to take their turns. Not only that, but unless the Hotseat uses Kingdoms, games rarely ever get finished.

On the other hand, interactive PBM's such as LotR and WotB, base their fun(and believe me, it is fun) around the politics and intrigue of a single state, but don't face a challenge from other factions.

So I thought why don't we combine the two?

The result is as follows:

There will be 4 or 5 player-controlled factions: England, France, Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and Venice(Venice will be dropped if there are insufficient players).

Each one of these factions will have their own set of starting rules appropriate to their historical rule. These rules will be similar to the rules for LotR and WotB.

All other factions will be played by the Moderator of the game, who will be me if no one else volunteers.

Players can choose which faction they will join and will be assigned an avatar and join in the rule of that particular faction.

In order to keep the game running quickly, timelines will have to be enforced. But as there will be multiple players per faction, there will always be someone available to play the save, and so there delays should be kept to a minimum. With only 5 factions, one turn could be completed in under a week, or even less with 4 factions. As a result, the game won't feel so disjointed.

I'll start accepting players immediately, and I'll gladly take anyone who wishes to moderate the game, although it will require being available most of the time to keep the game flowing quickly.

England:(3) Carlos Matthews
France:(5) Ibn-Khaldun
HRE:(6?) Cecil XIX, deguerra
Spain:(3) Ramses II CP, Zim, Dafuge

*Brackets indicate number of starting avatars.*

Possible players:
deguerra
Ibn-Khaldun

We will be either using MTW 1.3 or Kingdoms depending on people's preference.